I stumbled across this site today and was in total shock when I found a game for the Colour Genie which I wrote and marketed 34 years ago.

I've not seen the game or any screenshots for 30+ years. It's hard to believe that someone had a copy of the game, converted the tape (which I'm surprised lasted this long) into a digital format for playing on the Colour Genie Emulator.

The game in question is Alien Attack (Item ID 62938 in the database).

Tonight I loaded the emulator and got the game working. Memories from 34 years ago came flooding back. Having looked at the lines of code I still remember writing some of it.

A Big THANK YOU to the person who had a copy of the original tape and converted it. I would love to know who it was and how they got a copy of the game. Well done to the people who created the Emulator.

Some Colour Genie software was recovered from dusty corners of the Internet but this one was actually converted by me - using the Colour Genie Conversion Tools (which you can search for on the site) and CoolEdit 2000 to record a .wav of the tape in first place.

I have also created a Colour Genie World web site from the subset of data on Everygamegoing. You can find it here: